In what looks like a stroke of luck, planetbeing followed up on Wednesday morning with additional news. The evad3rs have successfully managed to accomplish unsigned userland code execution on iOS 7. The hacker notes that this gives the evad3rs a chance to start “poking the kernel.”

While this is great news, we still cannot draw any conclusions about the ETA for an iOS 7 jailbreak. The hackers still have a lot of work to do if they wish to accomplish this task, but nonetheless, progress is progress.

iOS 7 still isn't even available to the public, but will be on September 18th. Apple could make any changes that they want to iOS 7 between the Golden Master and the final build, so no one should be getting their hopes up just yet. If you value your current jailbreak, we would suggest holding off on the iOS 7 update when it is released to the public, as with Apple's newer devices, downgrading software isn't much of an option.

Additional good news is that the evad3rs still appear to have more stuff "in reserve," meaning that they didn't need to use all of their known exploits to accomplish where they have gotten so far. This leaves a little bit of wiggle room if Apple tries to be sneaky.

This is a bit off topic, more of a technial question.
If a bunch of new iPhones were already made & packaged, by the date the iOS 7 GM was released to devs, then what is installed on those phones already packaged?

Most likely not much longer from what little bits I understand of this stuff (which is very little so if I'm wrong feel free to correct me). But either way it is a new device so they will wait until after that is released before even considering how close they are to a jailbreak and will probably keep mostly silent so apple doesn't get too update happy. They will also probably wait until after 7.1 to release it since apple likes to push a lot of minor updates after new x.0.0 firmwares.

Originally Posted by LudaChris

This is a bit off topic, more of a technial question.
If a bunch of new iPhones were already made & packaged, by the date the iOS 7 GM was released to devs, then what is installed on those phones already packaged?

This is a bit off topic, more of a technial question.
If a bunch of new iPhones were already made & packaged, by the date the iOS 7 GM was released to devs, then what is installed on those phones already packaged?

Whatever version of iOS 7 was available at the time is what was installed on those devices. Most likely GM, as Apple had it before developers did.

Most likely not much longer from what little bits I understand of this stuff (which is very little so if I'm wrong feel free to correct me). But either way it is a new device so they will wait until after that is released before even considering how close they are to a jailbreak and will probably keep mostly silent so apple doesn't get too update happy. They will also probably wait until after 7.1 to release it since apple likes to push a lot of minor updates after new x.0.0 firmwares.

Good question and I too would like to know.

The GM is the version shipping with devices already packaged. Any updates will be run after the phone is activated following purchase. The GM is the version sent to hardware partners (in this case Foxconn). The GM was released yesterday, but it certainly wasn't compiled yesterday.

Most likely not much longer from what little bits I understand of this stuff (which is very little so if I'm wrong feel free to correct me). But either way it is a new device so they will wait until after that is released before even considering how close they are to a jailbreak and will probably keep mostly silent so apple doesn't get too update happy. They will also probably wait until after 7.1 to release it since apple likes to push a lot of minor updates after new x.0.0 firmwares.

Good question and I too would like to know.

It is true that it should not take much longer than the initial jailbreak for IOS 7 because I found out yesterday the the 64bit IOS 7 will run 32bit programs. This was done to allow Apple dev's to release their previously created 32bit programs in an executable format, with minor changes for IOS 7. HOWEVER, they won't be able to test their program WITH 64BIT architecture, unless one of the evad3rs has the new iphone 5s.